Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Alhamdulillah. Dah dapat pengurus baru.

Thank you, to those of you who applied for the 'pengurus' post. As it was quite an urgent matter, we managed to fill that position when i met up with an old acquaintance who use to do marketing for me during BULI BALIK. Her name is Aina and she will be handling my matters from now on. Once everything is cleared, i will be posting her new number for anyone who needs to get in touch with me.

The internship is however still on, so those of you interested to work with me on my next movie please write in. The experience will be priceless i promise u that. Either u will love movie making or u will hate it.

Saya amat excited sekali, menghadapi Pilihanraya 8hb Mac ini dan saya menyarankan semua rakyat malaysia to make a difference and VOTE, this should be the most important thing in your agenda as a Malaysian this year. Seperti yang pernah dikatakan oleh kawan saya sewaktu ketika dahulu. if you don't vote, then you don't complain. because you let others decide who gets to be in power. jangan mempersiakan voting right anda. on the 8th of march, the power is truly in your hands.

Any martial arts fan worth their salt these days is well aware of Tony Jaa of Ong Bak fame. Many of those are even familiar with Panna Rittikrai, Ong Bak‘s fight choreographer and Tony’s mentor. What most are not aware of, however, is that Ong Bak wasn’t Tony’s screen debut. Not by a long shot. And Panna? The man had a thriving screen career that spanned decades and scores of films, most produced by a tiny, low budget outfit working mostly in northern Thailand known as Pech Panna Productions. Pech Panna used a rotating stable of directors, one of whom was Thanapon Maliwan, then known as Chartchai Maliwan, son of the company’s founder. Among Maliwan’s titles is Mission Hunter 2, a fun little flick that featured both Rittikrai and Jaa in significant roles and which we have reviewed here on Twitch in the past. You’ll find it in the archives.

Okay, deep breath. A year or two back Maliwan announced a new project he was working on, a film titled Dead End which was to be the screen debut of fighter and stunt man Michael B, who was responsible for a lot of work in Ong Bak. He had a test reel done and investors lined up and had just started shooting when the financing fell apart and the film died an ignoble death.

So Maliwan did what any smart man who believed in his star would do: he found new investors and wrote a new script. The end result is Brave. Michael B stars but otherwise these are completely different films. And this one’s done. And the trailer smokes. Yup.

the crowd has voted..we'll see Malaysia's future from this point..btw congrates on your recent movie CUCI..as usual I enjoyed it so so much..4 of you got excellent chemistry..i've always been a big fan of you since you are a VJ decades ago..keep it up bro..u got the MOJO!!!